To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much funding his Department gave to the (a) Technology Strategy Board, (b) Simpler Trade Procedures Board and (c) Industrial Development Advisory Board in each of the last five years; and how much has been provided to each body in 2006-07. (106951)

[holding answer 4 December 2006]: The Technology Strategy Board and the Industrial Development Advisory Board are advisory bodies which do not receive any specific funding and the costs of administering the bodies is absorbed in the general administrative budgets.

SITPRO, an Executive non-departmental public body, has received the following amounts of funding in each of the last five years:

The projected budget for 2006-07 is £900,000.